There is misuse on the page itself. According to the trope description, this trope is when a character needs a pseudonym for himself, and uses his own name backwards for that.

However, the page itself has become a long compilation of any and all names in fiction that are some word spelled backwards. A clear example of trope decay.

An easy solution would be to broaden the description. Another solution may be to split off the misuse to a new page, and fix this one. This may or may not require a rename of the page, too. What do people think?

Or even just Mynoduesp, since "pseudonym name" is a little redundant, but that might not be as clear. Sdrawkcab Alias may also work. It's probably too early to be brainstorming for names before a rename is thought to be needed.

Name spelled backwards might be a trope if there's a forwards name to contrast with it, e.g. Stanley Yelnats, but as I'm not sure what that would signify (unimaginitive parent?) I don't know.

I think a rename may be needed because otherwise the misuse is likely to grow back without someone watching the page; the current name is ambiguous, and a clear one wouldn't be clunky. Is a wick check in order?

Why wouldn't a backwards name be a trope? The word that has been reversed is usually quite significant. Ybbats O'Redrum is probably not a kindly old priest, nor would he run an orphanage. At least not one anyone would care to visit.

A normal name being spelled backward is of lesser significance, but that's not how this trope is being misused.

I think renaming Sdrawcab Name and broadening the definition is a good idea. "A character uses his name backwards as an alias" could be a subtrope... We could make it so it also includes anagrams, too.

A name that is an intentional reversal of some related word is definitely a trope. That's what the trope's name implies the trope is about, and that's what the trope should be about. There is no reason whatsoever for it to be pseudonym-specific, and I don't see any reason for it to have a pseudonym-specific subtrope either.

I do think a pseudonym-specific subtrope is a good idea, because it happens often as a plot device that a character "cleverly" disguises himself by using his own name backwards. It's in-universe and the parent trope is not. Note the existing subtrope Alucard.

I would like to propose that we don't use a backwards word in the name of the trope. I find those difficult to read.

Also I don't think it needs to be a 'chekhov' snowclone. It's really not about chekhoving, which means an apparently unimportant element early in the story that becomes very much important later. (A backward name could be a chekhov, but it isn't always.)

So I'm thinking...
Name Spelled Backwards: The character (or place) has a name that is a descriptive phrase or foreshadowing. Subtrope of Meaningful Name. (It doesn't have to be exactly backwards; often diphthongs and other letter clusters stay in the correct order to make it readable — For example, TH almost always has to stay TH; seeing an HT, HS, or HW in a name is a near-guarantee that it's sdrawkcab.)

Anagram Alias: A character "cleverly" invents an alias by reversing or scrambling their real name. Subtrope of Meaningful Name, sister trope to Name Spelled Backwards (which is about a descriptive word used as a name, which this may not be). This could also include Mirror Universe duplicates who, similarly, are named the same as the real character but backwards. I prefer this to Strawkcab Name or Strawkcab Alias, because it implicitly allows for more complex variants like Tom Marvolo Riddle (one of the most prominent recent examples) and so on.

Alucard: A particular example of the Anagram Alias that's so common that it deserves its own trope page.

'Sdrawkcab' only succeeds at witty to the extent that it fails at 'clear'.

I don't think there's a substantial difference between the emordnilap pseudonym and the anagram pseudonym, trope-wise - in either case it's about the linguistic equivalent of a Paper-Thin Disguise, and the reversed name is a subset of the scrambled name (and slightly less paper-thin). They could easily be discussed together.

Empirical evidence shows that boring overly literal names perform worse than names that have some element of fun in them like Sdrawkcab Name. Nobody uses the tropes with boring names. Eliminating them hurts the wiki. There needs to be a mix of fun and clarity.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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